Turkey hunting season is over and our local feathered friends know this. So this article is not about a special, secret rub for use on a Thanksgiving turkey, as the title might imply. Instead, this is about a particular behavior we’re observing within our local turkey population. It seems they’re rubbing in the fact that they will not be served on November 28 by making almost daily rounds, flaunting this knowledge with arrogance. Their flagrant strut is even more pronounced as Thanksgiving Day approaches. One day we’ll see the woman folk in much larger numbers wandering about, grazing through the yard and edge of the woods for any available morsels. (Last count was 23.) On what seems to be alternate days, the bearded bandits make their rounds, with much more pomp and circumstance, of course. We’ll even see them fanning out in taunting fashion, sometimes bickering back and forth, trying to outdo one another. These antics surprised us since it’s not really mating season. But alas, boys will be boys. The bandits are a trio, and maybe what we’re observing is the age old cliché, two’s company, three’s a crowd!
“The three of us get along just fine! Until we don’t!”
Though a mouth watering sight, it’s also entertaining for back woods folk like ourselves. On the flip side, I’m not so sure what they leave behind would qualify as compost or fertilizer. Watch your step!
I guess we’ll have to stick with the classic Butterball for our Thanksgiving dinner. We’re feeling grateful for our many blessings, especially that of faith and family. His mercies are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:23) Now that’s something to be thankful for.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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